You can use something like: subplots_adjust(left=0.3)
The value is in the range 0.0 - 1.0, and is spaced evenly across the whole figure. Cheers, Mike Gerolf Ziegenhain wrote: > Dear Mailinglist, > > I want to create a horizontal historgram. The y-labels have more text, > than fits in the _normal_ layout. How could I increase the width of the > yticks legend? > > Best regards: > Gerolf > > -- > Dipl. Phys. Gerolf Ziegenhain ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > Private: Klopstockstrasse 21 - 65187 Wiesbaden - Germany > Office: Room 46-332 - Erwin-Schrödinger-Str.46 - TU Kaiserslautern - > Germany > Web: gerolf.ziegenhain.com <http://gerolf.ziegenhain.com> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users